Have you ever bought a car, and suddenly noticed that nearly every car you see is the same colour and style? Or, if you are pregnant, have you been surprised to see that it seems that everybody else is pregnant as well?
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Roxanne Tellier – The Frequency Illusion
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, Opinion, Review with tags Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, Baby Boomers, Cats, comfort, confirmation bias, Covid, Cuddle Bug, DBAWIS, Dogs, Facebook, freecycle, Pets, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, selective attention, Seniors, the frequency illusion on December 5, 2021 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – Freebies and Freecycles
Posted in COVID 19, Food, life, Opinion, politics with tags Arizona, DBAWIS, Deron Beal, donations, economic inequality, essential workers, Facebook, food insecure, freecycle, Freecycling, FreeTOreuse, Leaders, leadership, Little Free Libraries, Little Free Pantries, non-profit garbage, pandemic, Really Really Free Market, recyclable, segarini, Tellier, The Freecycle Network, Toronto-ReUseIt, TrashNothing.com, Tucson, Yahoo on May 30, 2021 by segarini
The hardest part of starting something – is starting something.
In 2003, Deron Beal was 39 years old, and working in Tucson, Arizona for a non-profit group that combined recycling with job training. Beal couldn’t stand to see good, usable items in his neighbourhood being thrown away on garbage day, and he began rescuing things that would have otherwise only added to the mass in the ever-growing city dumps and landfills.
Continue readingRoxanne Tellier – Loving The Sharing Economy
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Air BnB, Ardene, barter, Bob Segarini, Bunz, Bunz Trading Zone, Community living, DBAWIS, Emily Bitze, Facebook, freecycle, FreeTOreuse, Golden Years. Uber, Goodwill, Kind Exchange, ride sharing, rock and roll retirement home, Roxanne Tellier, Salvation Army, taxi, Toronto, Toronto Tool Library, Trash Nothing!, Value Village on April 3, 2016 by segarini
Times are tough. Wages are stagnant, but costs keep rising. It’s getting harder and harder for the average Joe or Jane to get from one pay cheque to the next, and that’s assuming they’re even lucky enough to have a job. Students skip meals to buy books. If you’re in the arts, making ends meet is nearly impossible … and that’s before you hit your Golden Years.
Roxanne Tellier – Books, Music and Stuff!
Posted in Opinion with tags 1984., agoraphobic, Aldous Huxley, Bernie Taupin, bibliomaniac, Bob Segarini, book monster, Books, Brave New World, Craigslist, David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, e-books, Elton John, entertainment, freecycle, George Carlin, George Orwell, hoarder, internet, J.R.R. Tolkien, Leonard Cohen, library, Lolita, music, musician, Nabokov, organized, pack rats, Pagliacci, poet, Rammstein, Ray Bradbury, Roxanne Tellier, Smoky Robinson, Sophie’s Choice, Stephen King, Sting, stuff, The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Ramones, The Smashing Pumpkins and deadmau5 have all written about soma, The Strokes, Toronto on February 1, 2015 by segarini
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Since I’m effectively agoraphobic during winter, it seems like a good time to turn my attention to this mess around me that I’ve accumulated, and scan through the wee bits of paper on which I’ve written a germ of an idea, usually accompanied by an *asterisk* and several exclamation points!!! I just have to haul them out from under the weight of the newspaper clippings, flyers, magazines, library books and paper backs they’ve landed under, over and in between.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 